ROY ARENELLA’s photographs have been published in Popular Photography, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

LISA BELLAMY’s writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and Cimarron Review. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at the Writers Studio. When not writing or hiking in the Adirondacks, she dreams up names for the English springer spaniel puppy she will one day bring home.

ANDREW BOYD is the author of Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little Deconstruction Book and is finishing work on Pilgrimage to Nowhere, a travelogue of his skeptic’s journey around the world. He cofounded Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning “subvertising” agency, and for a decade led the satirical media campaign Billionaires for Bush. He lives in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

ARNIE COOPER wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

KARL TARO GREENFELD’s latest book, Boy Alone: A Brother’s Memoir, about his autistic younger brother Noah, is due out in paperback from HarperPerennial this month and was a Washington Post Best Book of 2009. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Commentary, Southern Review, and Best American Short Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He recently moved to Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters to help care for his brother.

G. ALAN MYERS likes to cook up a mean spaghetti Bolognese when he’s not working on new portraits. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

JUDY NISENHOLT is a photographer who teaches English as a second language and studies Italian and Japanese. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

LAURA NOEL dislikes being photographed but endures it so as not to be hypocritical. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

ERIK REECE won the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award for his book Lost Mountain (Riverhead Books), about strip mining in the Appalachians. He’s also written a memoir about his Southern Baptist upbringing titled An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God (Riverhead Books). He is a writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, and his work has appeared in Harper’s, Orion, the Nation, and Oxford American.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MARKHAM STARR is the author of Against the Tide: The Commercial Fishermen of Point Judith (Flat Hammock Press), and his photographs have appeared in LensWork. He lives in North Stonington, Connecticut.

PHILIP TERMAN’s latest poetry collection is Rabbis of the Air (Autumn House Press). He teaches at Clarion University and lives with his wife and two children in a former one-room schoolhouse outside of Barkeyville, Pennsylvania, where he strives to leaven his Jewish angst with fresh eggs from his neighbors’ chickens, the occasional full-moon drumming circle, and the manure he gets for his garden from the horse farm down the road.

COLE THOMPSON is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

THOMAS TULIS  lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.

LISA WILTSE lives in New South Wales, Australia.

GENIE ZEIGER was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.